从事能源行业报道还不到一年，我并不自欺欺人地认为自己对天然气和管道世界的了解已提高到接近足够的水平。

业务深度、复杂、庞大。有时候，当我了解到一个我以前一无所知的主要工业部门的存在后，我感觉自己不知何故倒退了。

另一方面，我在北德克萨斯大学的一位新闻学教授说，当你开始时，你有几个优势：可以自由地提出任何问题，并承担更有经验的记者会避免的风险。他没有补充说这是因为没人希望你知道任何事情，但我填补了这一空白。

Well short of a year into the business of covering the energy industry, I don’t kid myself about having raised my knowledge of the ins and outs of the gas and pipeline world to anywhere near sufficient levels.

The business is deep, complicated and enormous. There are days when, after learning about the existence of a major industrial sector I previously knew nothing about, I feel like I’ve somehow managed to go backwards.

On the other hand, one of my journalism professors at the University of North Texas said that you have a couple of advantages when you start out: freedom to ask anything and take risks that more experienced reporters would avoid. He did not add that this was because no one expects you to know anything, but I filled in that blank.